The Powder Ganger Who Watched the Courier Choose Not to Kill Him

Rattler sits across from a silent NCR officer, giving testimony rather than a chronicle, the account arrives in pieces, out of order, because that's the only shape his chest can manage. He circles the morning Cobb and Sledge died at the checkpoint gate for most of the runtime before finally admitting the thing he's been withholding: that the Courier looked him dead in the eye through a gap in the trailer siding and chose to let him run. Piece by piece , Twitch's disappearance, Dutch's, the rumors that hardened into a name, the testimony builds toward a confession that never resolves, ending on a question the listener never answers.